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Thursday, March 27, 2014

WHO IS PROVOKING WHO ON THE GAZA FRONT?

Over the last few
weeks the Israelis have been sending their strike aircraft at low levels over
the Gaza Strip launching missiles at various targets. As a result several
Palestinians have been killed.

The Israelis have
said that these raids are in retaliation to Palestinian rocket attacks against
Israel, but is this really the case?

B’Tselam, the
Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, reports
that on 28 February 2014, Amneh Qdeih, a 57-year-old mentally ill Palestinian
woman, wandered off from a wedding party in the village of Khuza’ah and walked
toward the border fence with Israel. As she wandered closer to the border fence
Israeli border guards opened fire on her and she was shot in the abdomen and
died. She was the fifth no-combatant Palestinian to be killed by Israeli border
guards while more than 50 other non-combatant Palestinians have been injured
within the previous three months.

As a result of
this upsurge in attacks against Palestinians, Palestinian fighters have
retaliated by launching rocket attacks against Israel. Israel, in turn, have
then launched air strikes against targets in the Gaza which killed
at least eight Palestinians on 27 February 2014 and a further three
Palestinians were killed in another Israeli air strike on the Gaza on 11
March 2014.

It is clear that
Israel by killing Palestinian non-combatants in the Gaza Strip are deliberately
trying to provoke Palestinian fighters into retaliating by firing rockets into
Israel so that Israel can then attack targets in the Gaza in the hope that they
further provoke the Palestinians to fire more rockets into Israel. The intent
is clear; Israel is preparing to launch yet another major incursion into the
Gaza Strip. However, they can only justify this after the Palestinians have
increased the number of rocket attacks against Israel.

If and when the
Israelis do unleash a full onslaught against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
it is likely this time to be a full-on invasion and occupation if they can get
the Palestinians to escalate to that point.

Naturally, the
full force of the Israeli propaganda machine around the world will be there to
push the Israeli Hasbara that covers
up the Israeli aggression that triggers Palestinian rocket attacks against
Israel.

So far the
Israelis have been thwarted in their attempts to provoke the Palestinians of
the Gaza Strip into all-out war but one can rest assured that it won’t stop the
Israelis from continuing with their efforts.

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